College of Nursing, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.
School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC.
Fam Process. 2021 Jun;60(2):586-601. doi: 10.1111/famp.12559. Epub 2020 Jun 15.
The nature of family relationships is a critical measure for healthcare professionals who work with families. In particular, non-Western cultural groups display a higher level of collectivism that emphasizes relationships between family members. This paper reports the development and psychometric testing of a new scale, the Korean Family Relationship Assessment Scale (FRAS). Using DeVellis' Guidelines in Scale Development, a pool of 40 items was created after a review of the literature, followed by an assessment for content validity by six experts. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted with data from a sample of 217 Korean family triads (father, mother, and college-aged offspring) (N = 651). The final evaluation yielded three factors with 15 items: family support, family conflict, and family togetherness. Since the FRAS demonstrated good internal consistency and validity, it would be able to facilitate research on the relationships between family support, conflict, togetherness, and health. Applying this new instrument in theory-based research may contribute to knowledge about the role of the family in the health and well-being of family members within a Korean context. For clinical practice, this culturally sensitive and valid instrument has the potential to measure changes in family relationships after family therapy or interventions.
家庭关系的性质是与家庭合作的医疗保健专业人员的重要衡量标准。特别是,非西方文化群体表现出更高水平的集体主义,强调家庭成员之间的关系。本文报告了一个新量表的开发和心理测量学测试,即韩国家庭关系评估量表(FRAS)。使用 DeVellis 的量表开发指南,在文献回顾后创建了一个包含 40 个项目的池,然后由六名专家对内容有效性进行评估。使用来自 217 个韩国家庭三人组(父亲、母亲和大学年龄的子女)(N=651)的数据进行了探索性和验证性因素分析。最终评估产生了三个包含 15 个项目的因素:家庭支持、家庭冲突和家庭团聚。由于 FRAS 表现出良好的内部一致性和有效性,它将能够促进关于家庭支持、冲突、团聚与健康之间关系的研究。在基于理论的研究中应用这种新工具,可能有助于了解家庭在韩国背景下对家庭成员健康和幸福的作用。在临床实践中,这种具有文化敏感性和有效性的工具有可能衡量家庭治疗或干预后家庭关系的变化。